All things related to multicast

["Tony Ballardie" <>]

> From: Dan Pritts 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: 23 October 2008 21:34
>
>> After all, 1) ASM works,
> 
> Arguably, ASM does not work.
> 
> I've certainly had problems on my network due to MSDP storms
> and the SAP storm we saw recently.

ASM works provided it's configured properly (like anything else) and you
rate-limit msdp. Unless you're talking about bugs which do break its
correct operation, it's misleading to suggest it doesn't work. That's
NOT to say we shouldn't be moving towards SSM - we definitely SHOULD.

> IMO, Going forward we'll be faced with a choice between SSM and giving
> up on
> interdomain multicast.

It's not time to give up on it.... quite the opposite :-)

Tony